Acceleration of scientific computing using graphics hardware

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• Graham Pullan, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 28 May 2008, 14:15-15:15
• Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

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Developers of scientific computing codes crave performance (FLOPS) but only a tiny minority can afford to commission bespoke hardware. As a result, commodity hardware is co-opted into the HPC role. Most scientific applications are inherently data parallel and, fortunately, the stagnation in CPU clock speed has coincided with cheap high performance networking infrastructure so that PC clusters are now ubiquitous. Another way to exploit parallelism is through multi-core shared memory devices and commodity PCs with 2, 4 (8…) cores are now commonplace. However, equally prevalent, and far more powerful, are graphics processing units (GPUs). GPUs typically have over 100 cores and generate an order of magnitude greater floating point performance than CPUs. This seminar introduces the GPU as a science co-processor with fluid dynamics simulations as the example application.

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